My lightning talk for the Brisbane Web Design Meetup Group for "What I Learnt in 2011". What I learnt in 2011 is that "WordPress Is Taking Over The Internet"

1. What I Learnt in 2011
WORDPRESS IS TAKING
OVER THE INTERNET
Bronson Quick
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2. DOWNLOADS OF WORDPRESS 3.2
http://wordpress.org/download/counter/
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3. WORDPRESS.COM BLOGS
http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
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4. FREE THEMES ON WORDPRESS.ORG
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
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5. FREE PLUGINS ON WORDPRESS.ORG
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
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6. WORDPRESS ON THE GO
 WordPress for iOS
 WordPress for Android
 WordPress for Windows Phone 7
 WordPress for Nokia
 WordPress for WebOS
http://wordpress.org/extend/mobile/
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7. POWERING THE INTERNET
 WordPress powers 15.3% of the top 1 million websites on the web!
http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/all
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8. MATT’S STATE OF THE WORD 2011
 18,000 responses from all over the world
http://ma.tt/2011/08/state-of-the-word-2011/
http://wordpress.org/news/2011/08/state-of-the-word/
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9. SELF EMPLOYED
 6,800 self-employed respondents making a living from WordPress
 Were responsible for over 170,000 sites personally
 25 sites each!
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10. CONSULTANTS & COMPANIES
 65% heavily customised installs
 Features are only added if 80% of WordPress users will use them
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11. CUSTOMISED ADMIN
 Only 4% of the 18,000+ people had customised the admin
 Great backend UI design thanks to the WordPress UI team
 “A lot of work has been done, the front end is unrecognizable, but the Dashboard
still looks like the usual WordPress interface.”
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12. REPORTED HOURLY RATES
 $5 - $2000 per hour!
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13. REPORTED HOURLY RATES
 Average hourly rate $58
 Median hourly rate $50
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14. NEW DOMAINS RUNNING WORDPRESS
 22 out of 50 new domains in the United States of America
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15. NUMBER OF WORDCAMPS IN 2011
 47 in 2011
 Including WordCamp Gold Coast!
 Still 7 more to come
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16. ISN’T IT TIME YOU LEARNT WORDPRESS?
 Demand is growing rapidly
 WordPress community is a wealth of knowledge
 WordPress blogs (Just Google it!)
 WordPress Meetup groups
 WordPress.tv
 WordCamps
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17. THANKS ALOT
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13237
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